National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Marian de Forest
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2001 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Born 1875
Achievements: Humanities, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee

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News & Events

Building benches to benefit the Hall

By Hammerstone School Did you know that the historic town of Seneca Falls, NY is just up the road from Hammerstone? This is where the first Women’s Rights Convention was held, an effort which ultimately led to the winning of women’s suffrage. While women have gained...

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CONFLUENCE: 1844 meets 2017

By Betty M. Bayer on June 26, 2017, Finger Lakes Times Confluence: a word concerned with things — places, people, ideas — flowing together may be the most apt word to describe the National Women’s Hall of Fame’s rehabilitation of the 1844 Seneca Knitting Mill as its...

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Walls coming down at former Seneca Knitting Mill

By David L. Shaw on May 29, 2017, Finger Lakes Times SENECA FALLS — Demolition of former Seneca Knitting Mill structures on both sides of the limestone building that will be the new home of the National Women’s Hall of Fame is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday. Crews from...

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